Campaign for a Real United Nations

26/03/2026

Matthew Cooke on the disease of nationalism.

26/01/2024

A national scandal in Georgia, where 1,000s of babies were illegally adopted over decades.

Thousands of people in Georgia have found out they were stolen from their parents at birth and sold.

22/12/2023

No Protocol's reaction to RealLifeLore's video 'How Far Can You Get From Everybody Else?' Poles of Inaccessibility. It is reckoned by 2050 70% of people will live in an urban area.

How far can you really get from everyone else? I like being alone but this is too much.. plus a book and music recommendation(s). Original Video: https://www...

08/12/2023

Multitudes are marching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME9XpnQiU-8And I heard as it were the noise of thunder One of the four beasts saying come and see and I sawAnd behold a white...

04/08/2023

Record sea surface temperatures, up from 2016. The sea has been absorbing heat, and is beginning to creak.

'Dr Samantha Burgess, from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, says March should be when the oceans globally are warmest, not August. "The fact that we've seen the record now makes me nervous about how much warmer the ocean may get between now and next March." '

The oceans are a vital regulator for the climate and our weather but are rapidly heating up.

01/08/2023

No! They've lost contact with Voyager 2 - hopefully it will reacquire the Earth in October.

A signal sent in error left Voyager 2's antenna tilting the wrong way, severing contact with Earth.

11/07/2023

Haiti are the underdog of underdogs but they are at the Women's Football World Cup in Australia and New Zealand this summer.

"It didn't even take until getting back to the locker room for the tears to start,"

"Some of us, including myself, were absolutely bawling as soon as the whistle blew.

"Either you were crying, smiling or just screaming as a part of a release. It all just came together in a beautiful form.

"All of us just held each other together so tightly and really just embraced each other. All of us."

Haiti are playing in their first Women's World Cup. After natural disasters and a presidential assassination, the nation is ready for a positive spotlight.

27/05/2023

Korea is trying to deal with the issue of hikikomori recluses in society, by paying a monthly stipend to help them leave isolation. Former recluses say the issue isn't financial, but more to do with feelings of failure, or society's expectations.

"When they can't live up to these expectations, they think 'I failed', 'I'm too late for this' - this kind of social atmosphere depresses their self-esteem and may eventually cut them off from society,"

Money only "touches the surface" of a deeper problem, former recluses and youth workers say.

31/03/2023

A seemingly unlikely link between Ireland and Cambodia - local girls and boys adopting Gaelic Football.

Gaelic football has been an unlikely source of joy, adventure and boundary-breaking change for young people in Cambodia.

27/03/2023

The Italian art historian gets to the point:

"First comes the dismay at the absence of educational freedom, as it should not be restricted or manipulated by families," Mr Montanari said.
"On the other hand, from a cultural perspective, the Western world has a tendency to associate fundamentalism and censorship with other societies, believing it possesses the capability to spread democratic ideals worldwide.
"But this cultural backsliding clearly highlights the presence of fundamentalist views within the West as well."

A Florida school head was forced out after the famous Michaelangelo statue was shown to art students.

04/11/2022

"Rakyat Papua perlu mendapat keterangan kronologis yang menyebabkan bapak Filep meninggal. Jadi kami minta keluarga tidak ambil kesimpulan cepat terkait kematian bapak Filep," tegasnya lagi.